(Make Me a) TRISTE© Mixtape Episode 38: Roberto Ventimiglia

Roberto Ventimiglia

Roberto Ventimiglia is a songwriter with a rich and unpredictable personality, which we have already told you about on more than one occasion. Capable of ranging from psych-folk song of Drakeian delicacy to orchestral composition, in recent years Ventimiglia has refined his very personal creative spirit, happily communicative, open to contamination and never hermetically closed on himself.
A spirit that we can find as much in his “contemporary” creations as in the “light” repertoire. In the latter context, Roberto Ventimiglia’s most recent publication is the ep Look At Stars Tonite (A Lockdown Time Diary), digitally released in autumn 2020. The video clip of the single London was directed by Marco Bordignon.

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Constant Follower – Weave of the World (Video Premiere)

The Band:
Ever since the Scottish “soaring-ambient-dreampop-experimental-folk” band began releasing music more than three years ago, Constant Follower’s emotionally honest and pain-stricken, yet warm, lyrics have become one of the project’s most endearing and beloved qualities.  The name of the outfit itself is a reflection of those things that we carry through life, for better or worse, that ultimately define who we are.
As a teenager, McAll woke in hospital to find he had survived an attack by a gang that left him with a catastrophic head injury and every memory of his childhood gone. The next decade was spent in a cabin on the West Coast where Hebridean air was whipped in with the time to reflect and recover, eventually allowing him to begin songwriting again. The songs were originally recorded as raw ideas – thoughts and feelings forged in fleeting moments and recorded onto old cassettes as the wind howled outside. 

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Damon & Naomi – A Sky Record

Francesco Amoroso per TRISTE©

Dalle mie parti, quando una band esordisce con un album che si chiama More Sad Hits è molto probabile che diventi, velocemente, una delle mie band del cuore.
E’ successo esattamente così tempo fa, saranno trent’anni esatti l’anno prossimo, con il debutto di Damon & Naomi.
C’è da dire, a essere sinceri, che il duo di Boston, Massachusetts, partiva avvantaggiato, essendo i suoi componenti, Damon Krukowski e Naomi Yang, parte (e parte consistente) dei favolosi Galaxie 500.

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The Phonometrician – El Mar Convertido En Oceano

Peppe Trotta per TRISTE©

Sottrarre per mettere in risalto, distillare per rivelare pienamente la natura delle cose è un’operazione solo apparentemente semplice.
In realtà si tratta di un percorso complesso che presuppone la capacità di saper individuare ciò che è essenziale e di riuscire a renderlo accessibile.
Potrebbe essere questo l’intento perseguito da Carlos Morales nella realizzazione del suo secondo atto firmato The Phonometrician.

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(Make Me a) TRISTE© Mixtape Episode 37: Cindy

Cindy

Cindy is a band from San Francisco built around Karina Gill (also half of Flowertown project) with Jesse Jackson on bass, Simon Phillips on drums and Aaron Diko on keyboards. Gill became a musician only recently thanks to an encounter with an abandoned Squire Stratocaster left in the basement by a previous tenant, “mummified in electrical tape with the remnants of a burrito on the head stock”, that led her to begin carefully strumming her way through simple chords and making her own songs. After one self-released LP the band made the amazing Free Advice in 2020, first a limited cassette on the great label Paisley Shirt Rrecords, then on vinyl on Tough Love (UK) and Mt St Mtn (USA).
Cindy’s third album, 1:2, will arrive in early october.
The third and final single ahead of its release on 1st Oct is Party Store (with a video directed by Kevin Linn and shot by Mike Ramos).

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